The Nokia 6500 slide has earned a solid reputation as a reliable slider handset since its first appearance. The Nokia 6500 slide is a good general purpose phone that would be suitable for a very broad range of users. The 6500 slide is quite well featured for the price.

The Nokia 6500 slide has a battery cell life of 310 hrs standby charge and talk time of 6:00. The battery cell supplied with the 6500 slide is a Standard battery, Li-Ion (BP-5M). The Nokia 6500 slide is has bluetooth, making interactivity with a range of contemporary mobile devices extremely convenient. Regarding the the display the mobile handset is equipped with a 2.2 inch screen, which is a pretty average size display for the price. The display type on this handset is a TFT, 16M colors. The available ring-tones enabled on the 6500 slide are Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3 along with a vibrating tone . The Nokia 6500 slide supports 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G UMTS 850 / 2100 . A 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 3gp@15fps), flash; secondary QCIF videocall camera is integrated into the 6500 slide camera. If you use the Internet on the move, you will be pleased to know a WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera mini) compatible browser is included. Weighing in at 125 g this mobile phone is pretty light. The 6500 slide is very compact. The Nokia 6500 slide is available in, Silver and Black. The 6500 slide also has , Stainless steel case, Voice memo, Built-in handsfree, TV out, Calculator, Calendar, Push to talk, MP3/AAC/AAC+ player, Java MIDP 2.0 and FM radio with RDS.

Regrettably for Nokia the 6500 slide has some stiff competition from rival manufacturers products making it quite easy to find a great deal on this mobile handset.

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